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we had two problems with QT last year: first one, on the first speech 
the audio codec was not set up correctly. this was fixed later on. 
second, we had to resort using the mic on the camera (which is a 
cheap camera after all...), and of course the lighting in the room 
was not good at all for a camera (it was dark to allow us to see 
the slides)

other than that, the streaming cannot get any better unless you really 
have very good BW

if Jaime can bring his laptop this year too, i think we can still 
use QT as it was already proven to work. also, if we manage to have 
a second camera, i'd like to have a high quality recording (on tape 
maybe) that can be encoded later for best quality.

the wireless mic I bought for the PA system at the conference ended 
up having a bad lapel mic, and testing the system revealed to me 
that the earpiece was actually a better mic (  strange, but true 
) but no one else knew that, so the first speech did not have the 
PA working, because the Lapel mic was used instead of the earpiece.

i think that if the school gives us their media room we'll have their 
equipment too (not sure how much of it they would make us use though)

i guess we can at least have good mics. otherwise, i'll just buy 
something and test it before the devcon.

The screen in the room was highly reflective, a plastic, which gave 
a bright spot..so angling the cameras better, or a non-reflective 
screen would help.

anyway - we didn't have many people watching the stream actually 
last year. less than 5 or so. so it's higher priority to me having 
good recordings to offer after the devcon.

I only brought 1 tripod, and I should have brought 2.  So the camera 
I had, I had to hand-hold, and with the Hotel coffee, my hands were 
shakey...;-)

(just dumping out some past mistakes so none get repeated...;-)

I will not be able to make it to DevCon2005... but here's my input.


It will be good if 'virtual audience' can have access to the speakers 
papers or presentation maybe the night or even as they are presenting.


That way.. we can listen and digest from the presentation on hand...

One option is to provide commentary text, images and links a few 
seconds after they are shown.

For synchro skating competitions that we can't attend, we follow 
them using Team Germany's Live Ticker.
http://www.teamberlin-1.de/live_frame.php?ev=2&lang=en

This is a very slick PHP application that has photos taken at the 
arena and broadcasts them  a few seconds later.

Some dedicated fans from Germany were providing the photos (JPEGs), 
scores and bilingual (at least English and German) commentaries.

When new content is published, a message appears at the top to inform 
the viewer that it is available.

They hit the refresh hyperlink and they are up-to-date.   From the 
timestamps, our lag time to Canada was sometimes as low as 45 seconds 
after the event occurred i.e. we are getting commentary results about 
a given team's skating while they are still on the ice.

This site reports http://www.teamberlin-1.de/en/cup-of-berlin/that 
4,000 viewers followed the Berlin Cup in Jan-2005 using Live Ticker.

Maybe something like that would work for DevCon2005.

Is there a list of participants online (or where there be one)?

maarten: http://www.colellachiara.com/devcon05/schedule.html

May I suggest someone (Gregg, you) do a short one on Roxy

good idea! Gregg would be best, but i could do a quick intro...

they prefer to comunicate on audio layer but video exist too with 
shoutcast but then video seems to doesn't work properly with MacOSX 
clients (VLC ...) I have no objection to use QT but It would be nice 
to first test the reability of shoutcast witch have been done and 
witch gives us the known result ...

before the end of next week, i need to have a rough idea of how many 
persons are interested in the "visit rome" plan (see http://www.colellachiara.com/devcon05/register.html); 
it would be good to have an idea of how many persons need an hotel 
room in milan too - if you don't tell me, you'll have to work this 
part out by yourself then.

Gabriele we are actually collection this information for french scene 
...

we will give it to you asap

My friend who is big fan of F1 racing today informed me, that 2nd 
of October, there is F1 racing in Milano? He also told me, F1 is 
rather popular in Italy, and that we should expect Millano traffic 
troubles starting from 1st of October. Gabriele?

Ouch.  funny how racing slows things down.

Monza "Grand Prix" is 2, 3 and 4 september. So if any, it's not formula 
one at this date.

Yep, DideC is right. See www.formula1.com.

so there is no "race" condition?

Monza event calendar : http://www.monzanet.it/AreaImmagini/CalendarioPDF/2005/Calendarioal comune 2005.pdf

web site updated! http://www.colellachiara.com/devcon05/index.html

As you see I got a slot but no topic yet... I have some ideas, but 
I'm not sure what you are interested in most. So, hey, why not ask? 
:-))

Ok, ideas I have are:


1. Is commercial success of Rebol bound to open-source the interpreter?
2. make-doc-pro browser as a base for an IOS/xpeers based Wiki
3. The RPC idea - 12 months later


If you have an other idea let me know :-)) I'm open to think about 
all kind of topics.

I like (1).

We should have a discussion forum slot and/or hack-a-solution session. 
 It will be good if we could have a project to tackle together, besides 
presenting . This could help us either build new mezz, or prototype 
some ideas. We could post ideas on what to do in the hack session 
ahead of time.

I don't fully understand 2) Do you plan for kind of "web interface 
for IOS"?

about discussion: i hope we can have plenty of that after 4 pm. :) 
maybe we can have a room at the hotel or something like that to sit 
around a table and just talk

otherwise... i'll see if we can stretch the school time to 5 pm

... and drink :-)

:)

btw, what do you think of the plan for Rome?

Gabriele - how expensive is accomodation in Treviglia?

2) No, Shadwolf  and I have done a Reblet that renders MDP documents. 
Something like his MDP-GUI. The idea is to use such a browser (with 
an attached editor) as base for a x-internet wiki system. Distributed 
via IOS.

no idea yet, i'm waiting for that from Mario.

I just visited Rome in May :-)) Very nice city.

plan for Rome sounds really attractive, although in my case there 
are several factors - how to get to Italy (probably by car, but I 
can't travell myself that far a way ...) and money - I invested into 
Xidys and now I am short for money :-)

So I count: +1 for topic 1

Robert - +1 for topic 1? Is that your topic? :-) So you want to have 
presentation about possible advantage of open-sourcing Rebol? Or 
am I missing something?

Yes, these are my ideas I can present (or say something about) at 
DevCon 2005.

simply - two nights in Rome, right? It is some 180 EUR for accomodation, 
then there is train to Millano - 50 EUR. But what if we go by car? 
Should we travell directly to Rome? Or first accomodate ourselves 
in Treviglio and travell to Rome by train?

The title doesn't state "advantage of open-sourcing Rebol", the presentation 
will about if it's mandatory to get commercial success.

or not. ;-)

ah, that could be interesting. You have some experience in that area? 
That is really a good question - "how to get rebol succesfull"? Today 
I posted another links to article talking about Ruby (Rails) and 
such arctile mentions Python, PHP, Perl, but noone ever mentions 
Rebol - I wonder why ... - so - good topic!

petr: if you share the room (they're all double rooms) it's €90 for 
two nights. and by car it can cost you more than €50 (unless you 
share too). but, i guess in your case it's just much cheaper to get 
directly in milan.